Itamar Vieira Junior

Itamar Vieira Junior

Itamar Vieira Junior was born in Salvador de Bahía, Brazil, in 1979. He is a geographer and doctor in Ethnic and African studies of the UFBA. The novel of his tortuous plow (Leya, 2019, Tusquets 2021) won the Leya Award, and received the Ocean and Jabuti Awards and is being translated into a dozen languages.